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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2018 11:55:39 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r334543 - head/usr.bin/top
Message-ID:  <5B14C64B.2070602@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201806032133.w53LXvVY092879@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201806032133.w53LXvVY092879@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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04.06.2018 4:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>>>> Bad side effect of doing that is it is not hard to get a "core"
>>>> from top when run as a user, as it is going to try to write
>>>> to /, and it probably does not have permission for that.

We already have global sysctl kern.corefile that can be changed to /var/tmp/%N.core

Perhaps, a kernel could take a look to process environment to something like
KERN_COREFILE variable for an override of that sysctl?



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